Most Useless Minecraft Items

The Top Ten

To me, dirt shouldn't be on the list. If you're on survival, it's better for making a house than wood- who would want to waste the most useful item in minecraft? It's also easier to get. Anyway, dead bushes don't do anything- at least with solid blocks you can keep enemies away when you're at half a heart or something.

There is no use in venturing into the desert, being without food or water for days, running into a million zombies and creepers, getting blown up in a temple and barley surviving then having to break a pick getting out, then having to find refuge in a testificate village where a siege is happening. For a few useless bushes. This all happend to me whilst being chased by a pack of angry wolves. I got rid of them by binning them into a desert ravine.

Sure, you can plant things with it, but once you use it, you don't want to use it much more. You can make just as good a hoe with wood instead of needing to waste diamonds.

The worst part about it is the fact that it is the ONLY TOOL IN THE GAME where the building materials don't make it more effective, just more durable! Just plant a few trees to get the same experience as a diamond hoe, just with many more hoes and more renewable hoes.

Honestly, you'd be wiser to make a jukebox out of your first diamonds than a hoe!

No it's not there's other hoes and there are pickaxes axes swords and shovels

How is the thing that helps you stay alive at #3? The hoe can help you plant food and you never need to waste your time building another one if it's made of diamonds. It wouldn't be the first thing I build with diamonds, but if you have any to spare, the hoe can be pretty useful.

Literally like every item has a use on this page, no matter how small that use is. Cauldrons, dead bushes, the dragon egg and many blocks are incredibly useful for decoration, and many builds would not be as good without them. Rotten flesh can be used for easy to get emergency food, and items like slime balls are used to craft useful items such as sticky pistons. In fact, there is only one item here I think should actually be on the list.

Poisonous Potatoes.

Poisonous Potatoes are pointless to eat, you almost always have a large amount of normal potatoes by the time you get a poisoned one, so using them as food is pointless. You can not purify or plant them, further increasing their uselessness. The only use at all I could find for them is re-texturing them using a resource pack and then using plugins for a server to give them an actual use, but of course, that requires modifying the game using resource packs and plugins.

The poisonous potato: The only use for it is trolling someone by renaming it and giving them the "healthy potato" or whatever you renamed it to. Other than that, it is useless. You can't place it to protect yourself, you can only eat it. USELESS!

Well, if you're doing like a... pirate-themed thing, poisonous potatoes would be the obvious choice of food! ~Mistyrain

Air is actually very useful. It is treated as a block, like any other block in the game. It is the only invisible, non-obtainable block that you can freely walk through without suffocating. When you destroy a block, it is replaced with an air block. Without air blocks, you couldn't play this game, so please take this off the list.

Well yeah you may say, "Air isn't an item BLah Blah BLah! " It is a block with an id of 0. Air is useless, monsters would still spawn, fire could still exist, Steve would not suffocate, Crops would still grow.

You can spawn monsters in an area with no air, an example is the enderdragon, it spawns in mid-air. Fire in Minecraft doesn't need air. Steve can swim in lava and not drown, and he can get his head stuck in glowstone or TNT and not suffocate, Also the player can go under the map and not suffocate, and there are no air blocks under the map. And crops would still grow because they don't require air.

Air is the most USELESS item, along with the poisonous potato. The poisonous potato is useless, but air is meaningless. It is invisible, no one needs to breathe it or even anything! Unless, you can't place anything in void... In that case it should be #1 on "top ten best items", even though it isn't an item... In fact, ill try my theory soon!

What do you want the ground to be made out of? Stone? It's pretty useful

Dirt is one of the best blocks in the game, this is something SkyBlocks teaches you. Planting trees, farming, spawning animals (when it becomes Grass, which is even more useful), making the world look great.

Without dirt, minecraft couldn't be minecraft. Dirt is the block always there for you, when ever you need to build, or anything! What block do you see when you start your world? Dirt, exactly. Imagine minecraft without dirt, it would just be empty space, no blocks or anything. Dirt is the main block of minecraft and without it, minecraft wouldn't be minecraft. But then we go to air and bedrock...

I really wish they would give this a use, rather than having it teleport around randomly. I think the Red Dragon should hatch from it.

It is kinda annoying that the rarest block in minecraft is a decoration block. You have to kill tons of enderman, mine tons of obsidian, make a nether portal, go to the nether and find a nether fortress, kill tons of blazes, throw hundreds of eye of ender and lose some just to find a stronghold, get past the annoying silverfishes, get into the end, destroy all ender crystals, slay the ender dragon, punch the egg so it gets out of the bedrock, 'itemify' it with a torch to finally get it and use it as a house decoration? I really hope it gets a use. There should be a sword made out of a diamond handle and 2 dragon eggs above it. It should make like a Ender Dragon's Blade and it can shoot out end acids and deal 9 damage per hit. Or maybe make a baby ender dragon hatch out of it. - TheGoldenRifle

You would think that because it is so hard to get that it would have some use exept for just placing somewhere!

THESE ARE ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL BLOCKS in REDSTONE. These are the only blocks which can have different comparator outputs AND can be pushed by pistons. What used to take HUNDREDS of square blocks to make redstone contraptions take now only cauldrons, comparators and pistons which can be super compacted.

Useless, potion bottles can be filled with water by clicking on a source water block. Just make a 4x4 square block of water and you can easily replace ALL your cauldrons.

Like said before, unlimited water sources can easily get the job done and spare all that wasted iron spent on it. Just an expensive decorative item for the most part.

This doesn't deserve a place as #7. Or even on this list. Enchanting is so important in Minecraft. Now in 1.8 what do you need to enchant? Lapis.

It's now used in enchanting as of 1.8

No, you could make blue which is kinda cool

Great for enchanting, but everything else sucks. All you can do with lapis lazuli besidesenchanting is make it into dye! I mean just to get blue dye, you have to go all the waydown underground and it's as rare as diamonds. I thinks lapis should be kept in the gameFor enchant. Then you should get blue dye from a flower, just like you do with the otherTwo primary colors. (Red and yellow)

Actually, drink milk after eating a rotten flesh and the hunger effects stop.

And then someone splashes you with some poison and you did just waste your milk. How awesome is that! - Superr1Fifty

Well, what else did you expect the zombies to drop, feathers? They also have a few uses... they can be used as backup food and if you drink milk with it you can get rid of the hunger effect, also you can use it to feed your dogs if they're low, they aren't really useless.

Okay I've gotta admit this doesn't have much uses. However, you can use rotten flesh to tame wolves. Nevertheless, I think it's really useless as it can give you food poisoning.

I'm just voting this to say that:1.) I have 16 dogs in Minecraft and I feed them with ROTTEN FLESH.2.) I use this ROTTEN FLESH to breed my dogs.3.) My dogs don't care what they eat.ROTTEN FLESH NEEDS MORE LOVE

The Contenders

11Rain

What rain is actually useful it makes fishing raw fish faster whoever thinks that rain is useless is a noob

Too loud, lasts too long, happens too often. Those are my main 3 reasons for hating rain. So far as I can tell, it no longer serves a function (though I think it once spawned water source blocks, that is no longer the case anyway).

The rain... SO LOUD but I know something! Go to your bed and sleep (works on day too) and it ends when you wake up

IT'S SO ANNOYING! When I'm creating mini games for others, it rains like, every five minutes. At first I thought, "Blah blah just rain" but later, it was just SO LOUD and SO ANNOYING imagine a supercharged creeper hissing but you can't hear it because of the loud doofus rain, then, BOOM YOU DIE

They were just an April fools joke, so they have no real use. You can't actually buy the items from the shop and they're only obtainable now through hacks... Pretty useless if you ask me...

This should be 3rd most useless, Bedrock is useful because it can only be broken in creative, and without Air, you would drown or suffocate, and you can barely move too! The Dragon Egg is a trophy like Lapis Lazuli, locked chests are pretty useless...

I HATE tall grass! It always gets in the way when I build on flat ground in survival mode. Why tall grass! Why do you have to exist in minecraft.

Some people are idiots. Tall grass may be annoying, but it isn't useless as it is the only way to get wheat seeds other than from villages. Wheat is used for food as well as breeding animals.

Tall grass isn't that bad when you compare it to the DOUBLE tall grass... You know how when you attack a chicken in tall grass it just hits the grass and doesn't hurt the chicken? Try that with a creeper.

Dude put it in an anvil rename it and trick your friends its funny - radioactive329

I mean, dirt can be used for pillar jumping or in bridges, gravel can be used in traps and to farm Flint, deadbushes add realism to deserts, diamond hoes last longer than other ones, lapis Is used in enchanting, for decoration and as blue dye that can be combined to mix colors, the dragon egg can be kept in a chest, item frame or case of your design as a sort of trophy or souvineer that you can remember the fight of your Minecraft career by, and even poisionus potatoes can be used as an emergency food source as long as you stay in your house until the poision wears off, but this has no reason to exist besides being the way you make splash potions of poision.

They may have terrible durability but amazing efficiency not kidding a sword does a lot of damage a pick mines fast so dude gold tools are good to get rid of some gold in your inventory you should stock up on some gold and make some great way out of situations - radioactive329

Gold has a higher chance of getting higher level enchantments, it also will randomly restore some durability it has when using it.

Gold Sword is the worst out of all the gold tools because it deals the same amount of damage as the wood sword, and it's even less durable.

Well gold tools can break quickly, but did you know its faster than diamond? - Datguyisweird666

It would be cool if there were custom music disks, so you put it in the jukebox and then you click a button that says select music file and then you can play your favourite heavy metal or classical music! - Harri666

The only true purpose of music discs is to play them. But first you have to go deep into a dungeon or have a creeper shoot a skeleton and if you've tried it is really hard! Don't forget having to make a jukebox which requires a DIAMOND!

Guys notch made it hard to get music disks and jukeboxes because its supposed to be a challenge something to do when you basically have nothing to do to survive anymore - radioactive329

Dude its more for fun because cookies are amazing in real life and also notch tried to make the game as realistic as possible and what would be life without cookies its called realistic bro - radioactive329

You can make 8 cookies from just 2 wheat and 1 cocoa beans. 8 cookies will restore 16Food points

They drop apples and saplings, you need saplings to grow trees, wood is the essence of minecraft, apples make golden apple which can be used battling bosses, also for curing zombie villagers so you can eventually breed villagers to get cool items

Yeah a lot of people agree paintings are great for decorations but hiding things is kinda useless now because now that everyone knows about the trick as soon as someone sees a painting the first instinct they have is to walk through it so its more for decoration now and not for hiding anymore - radioactive329

Good for hiding stuff and for decoration but that's it. If you just want stuff for surviual (like in the Hunger Games), this will probably the first thing you throw out.

Well, decoration and hiding stuff is quite helpful for Adventure Maps, or just builds. I re-texture them to make signs.

I'm going to estimate "Invisible Bedrock" means barrier because that's what the barrier block is, the barrier is very useful because it can be used as a border for adventure maps etc. and since your in adventure mode you can't see that it's a block, its also kinda fun to use it for parkour since people will have no idea where to jump

Actually, this is probably the end of the world, where there is a invisible barrier. VERY USEFUL, because, the other side is just phantom blocks, and if you are in survival, you would get there and fall, if it wasn't for the barrier. They could use bedrock, but it would look horrible - mistermistery27

This is very useful because if you have someone annoying on a server then splash your self with invisibility and then take a invisible block and build around them then also set their spawn in their so then the will never get out and then eventually they will leave the server :).

They are world barriers in Old Pocket Edition worlds, if you didn't have them we would fall out of the world all the time!

It doesn't take many steps to make potions. People just think so because there are so many you can make. Its actually common sense: sugar would make you hyper giving you swiftness; everyone says eat your fruits and veggies so you can grow strong and healthy, therefore making glistening melons healing; puffer fish hold air underwater and blow it out (causing bubbles) acting as if they were breathing. It doesn't even take a lot of work if you have the common sense and know that netherwart is the base of a potion.

Guys of course it kills you why can't you guys understand it for most of these things on the list it called being realistic you guys need to learn that or I'm going to flip out - radioactive329

Pufferfish can be used to make an underwater breathing potion but that takes a lot of work.

It's used for enchanting too... just place bookcases 2 blocks around an Enchanting Table and bam... Letters fly out from the books to the table and you can get higher level enchantments... They're not useless!

Bookcases aren't useless you use them to get a higher level enchantment

I dunno bro, the compass has saved my life several times. And I personally think it's better than a map since it doesn't get in your way when looking down. It also give me the comfort to explore without having to worry where the heck I am.

This can be a useful item in Hunger Games. It leads you to your nearest player. On other games, it will lead you to spawn, but that can be useful. If you build a house near your spawn, but you get lost, if you have a compass, get it out and your getting to your house.

Build your house on your spawn point and it points you to your house which is useful

Yes you can also change your spawn point by sleeping in a bed I believe.

It would be cool for the fact that when you destroy it, it drops dirt and a herb that can be used for potions or enchanting. Or charm to scare a certain mob! - Harri666

Think about the mooshrooms, man! And, what would a mushroom biome be like with grass?

I think podzol was mostly meant to add another biome-exclusive block to the world, but it's still really useful. Also, those of you talking about mooshrooms are thinking of mycelium which is pretty much the same haha

There is virtually no use in diving underwater, risking your life and posing the threat of getting lost from darkness, or losing track of time, to venture into the deep canyons of underwater areas and to kill 3-4 rarely seen squid when you could be doing something more productive to get... What? One, two sacs of ink? And with it, you what? Write stuff down in a journal?Really?!?!?

It can only make a weakness potion and and you can make most potions with an awkward potion

You can only make a weakness potion with them just like a mundane potion

It is useless, yes can use it to make a weakness potion but you can just use an awkward potion for that, and the thick potion has no effects so therefore it more useless than any item other than deadbushs

Chain Armor you can see through it and it looks bad. It doesn't give much protection, and it breaks really fast. Why couldn't they make stone armor? That would of been better. Minecraft doesn't need chain armor.

It "looks poor" and would be the armor version of the stone-tier of tools. But, it's still nice to add a bit more to the game.

It makes no sense it can only be gotten in creative well on Xbox anyway so whats the point?

Oh, yeah, and last commenter, Stone armor, may I note, would take less hits than leather to break. Say, why not make SPONGE armor while your at it! -Krokorokfan932

When you're on hardcore mode and are coming up from your mine you don't want to come up into the middle of a horde of monsters

The clock is one of the most useful items for me... if I go mining for a while and run into a few monsters along the way and then am low with no food and no armor... It's useful to use a clock to see if its safe to back up or not

What if you couldn't see the sun. Would it STILL be useless?

If you guys really want to place the clock, place them in an item frame. It s really usefulbecause it tells you the time. Now, if you have an underground base with secret ladders,it would be good to tell when to get out. The bright side is day, and the dark side is night.(This is for begginers who just started the game but is already on this list.)

Really useful actually since you can trade it for diamond tools and glowstone and all the good stuff like that. To get it it only takes a bit of wheat and paper.

Yeah the ore is terrible because in every village like 10 villagers give out emeralds for like 15 wheat so steal the wheat at the village farms and give it to the villagers but searching for the ores is terrible and a complete waste of time so do what I said and get some wheat insteadd - radioactive329

Yes you get emeralds from it but there ridiculasly rare and trading with villagers is much easyer